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Mutahir
Asked: 2010-07-27 05:42:30 +0800 CST

Power Off Monitors at Logoff

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Mixed domain environment, xp, vista, 7 DC = Server 2003, 2008

Has anyone done this ? powering off the Monitor when a user shutsdown the machine or logs off ?

I have checked the GPO Setting but they seem to be focused on when the machine is idle or on different powersources - I am after a way to power-down the monitor as and when a User shuts down the machine when finishing work ?

Any suggestions / help would be great ! Thanks & Regards

group-policy windows-7 electrical-power logoff-scripts

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    The monitor should go into "sleep" mode when the computer is turned off, and that is all that happens if the display is turned "off" by the Windows energy saver; it just means that the graphics card turns off the sync signal, prompting the power saver mode on most monitors.

    As far as I know there is no standard method to really turn off a monitor from the computer, but I guess there might be some models that are controllable via USB or something, but this is certainly not standard and not controllable via GPO.

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